Married to Autism? Find Connection and Ease

For Typically Developing Partners (aka "neurotypicals") in Mixed Relationships

4.70 (58 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Parenting & Relationship
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5.5 hours
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Jul 2022
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$27.99
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What you will learn

Students will have the information and resources they need to get results in their individual lives. Students who commit to the course and do the work will have a series of self-made materials they can use to impact their mindset and elicit positive change.

Description

Welcome!

This course is for typically developing people (aka "neurotypicals") married to people on the autism spectrum (and those who aren't married yet or were married before). 

If you have autism yourself, come back soon for a course about marriage and relationships geared specifically to you. It's coming! 

If you're typically developing and your partner or spouse is on the autism spectrum, you're probably more than aware that there are very few resources available for you. This course is different. It was built with you in mind. I address autism within the context of what autism means for  you considering that you are now and always will be typically developing -- with typically developing needs and typically developing desires. You are who you are. 

You can't end your "typically-developingness" any more than your partner can change the autism. That is neurodiversity. Both partners are different and both partners are equally important.  

This course is designed to give you, the typically developing member of a mixed-neurological relationship, the education and tools you need to get results in your life. As you already know, I can't make impossible promises. You will always have a typically developing brain and your partner will always have a brain with autism. That isn't going to change. I can't "fix" the communication difficulties you and your partner inherently face because nobody can jump in and magically change the functioning of either of your brains. "Techniques" only go so far. They're hard on the typically developing partner and they're hard on the partner with autism.

So this course doesn't focus on "techniques." Instead, it does something more: it focuses on what you do have control over -- you

I'm looking forward to seeing you around! 




Content

What Does it Mean to be Typically Developing?

Welcome!
Introducing Your Instructor
1.1 What Does it Mean to be Typically Developing?
1.2 Digging Deep on Body Empathy
1.3 Autism's Compensatory Strategies
1.4 Communication in Mixed-Neurological Relationships
1.5 Your Strengths
1.6 How Your Strengths Can Work Against You
1.7 Bonus Idea: Behaviorism and Adults with ASD

Taking Control of Your Own Story

The Power of Narrative
Thinking Through Your Life Before Your Relationship
2.3 Writing the Narrative of Your Life Before Your Relationship Began
2.4 Thinking though the Narrative of Your Relationship
2.5 Writing the Narrative of Your Relationship
2.6 The Power of Belief
2.7 Narrative and Vision for the Future
2.8 How to Use Your Materials

You and Your Perspective

3.1 Carrying Two Perspectives vs. Carrying One Perspective
3.2 Meltdowns and Both of You
3.3 Body Language and its Impact on You
3.4 The Time you Spend Caregiving
3.5 Body Awareness -- Developing a Practice
3.6 Self-Care and Your Practice Summarized

What is Love?

4.1 Marriage is Different than Friendship or Parenthood
4.2 Robert Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
4.3 Attraction -- How Mixed-Neurological Relationships Begin
4.4 Autism and Sex
4.5 Society and Infidelity

Hope -- Finding Your Connection and Ease

5.1 Your Journey Forward

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Reviews

Sumie
October 5, 2023
Thank you so much for this educational information for such an affordable cost. It has given me so much awareness.
Rachael
August 15, 2023
This is the first time I had explained what I have been experiencing in my relationship but didn’t have the words for. Not all of but so much of what is discussed rang true for me. I feel so much better armed with the knowledge (and permission!) I need to move forward, knowing instead of just feeling what is not working. I’m not sure what my future holds but feel so much better about moving forward. Thanks!
Vicki
April 14, 2023
Found her insights spot on. I gifted this course to 2 others before I even finished it. Refreshing thoughts. Focus is on you, the NT of the relationship with great ways to look at things from both sides. Been married to Autism for 45 years and found this course something I will review on a regular basis to support myself.
Sue
January 6, 2023
This course is EXCELLENT. I highly recommend it to the NT married to a ND (male or female). There is a lot of information that I did not know about. It is very interactive, with lots of worksheets for self assessment. There are still hard decisions to be made, but she helps you all along the way. She has scientific facts to back up her knowledge. Anne speaks from her heart so truthful and so honest with an incredible brilliant brain. She knows her subject very well and is very unbiased. Her course is extremely reasonable well worth the $$. Thank you Anne for great course!
Anna
July 2, 2022
It's incredible how accurate the information in this course is, how well Anne describes the experience of NT partner in a neurodiverse relationship. Very supporting, uplifting and inspiring material. I feel that someone (finally...) really understands my perspective. Thank you!
Elizabeth
June 14, 2022
I have been with a partner with Autism since 2004. I'm a speech language pathologist so I work with people with Autism (usually kids). However I didn't make the connection that my partner has it as well. I went to so many counselors and have been through, well, so much abuse and carelessness. I felt like there was nothing for us neurotypicals. I even called a help line with the TRIESS (sp?). I was planning on leaving and millimeters away from suicide and when the found out I was considering leaving they just dumped me. Thank you for your recognition and your help.
Ruth
April 13, 2022
Wow! where do I start? This course is a life saver. I ended up listening back to back and now I'm going through again and completeting the resources. This course explains my life over the last 37 years and has confirmed that some strategies that I have put in place over the years have been to protect me from the effect of our neuro-diversities.
Suzy
March 14, 2022
This is what I’ve been waiting for for years! I am excited and I’m drinking it up like a thirsty traveller in a desert! I need to send this lady a basket of fruit or SOMETHING because she is filling such a need! A God-Send for sure!
Thomas
November 4, 2021
Thank you for putting the puzzle pieces together and making sense out of what I have been living the last four years.
Kay
June 6, 2021
She mentions tools and exercises, but all it does is take you to an appt. website. Where are the tools?
Natalie
August 19, 2020
This course is God sent for me. For the first time I have found someone who truly understands my situation. Ithas been the most validating set of videos I have viewed and I wish all NT spouses could watch. Thank you
Katie
March 4, 2020
This is a MUST for anyone who has a partner with autism. No matter where you are in your relationship, even if your relationship has ended, this is for YOU! Anne’s knowledge, compassion, guidance is unparalleled and unprecedented. Thank you Anne.
Esther
April 27, 2019
Fantastic. Absolutely spot on for the help I had hoped to receive. Having finally completed the course (yes, I fall into that category you identified - having ADD made it difficult for me to stay focussed on the course, despite my best intentions!) I will now be recommending it to the group "Different Together". Founded in 2015, "Different Together" is a not-for-profit organisation based in the UK and a tremendous source of real life support. Tony Attwood gave a brilliant one day workshop in London on NT/AS relationships in May this year (2019), but this course was far more specific to the sort of thing the NT partner needs to hear.
Laura
September 13, 2018
As I heard this lesson, I was able to understand my husband retreats and withdrawal behaviour that drags me and my family down. This is an example of my empathy towards him because I can feel how he deteriorates his life due to his frustrations and lack of verbal and social skills.

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